strike
/stɹaɪk/ verb B1- To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate. · Please strike the last sentence.
- To hit. · Strike the door sharply with your foot and see if it comes loose. A bullet struck him. The ship struck a reef.
- To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
- To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows. · A hammer strikes against the bell of a clock.
- To manufacture, as by stamping. · We will strike a medal in your honour.
- To run upon a rock or bank; to be stranded; to run aground. · The ship struck in the night.
- To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes. Of a clock, to announce (an hour of the day), usually by one or more sounds. · The clock struck twelve. The drums strike up a march.
- To sound by percussion, with blows, or as if with blows.
He/she/it strikes · Past struck · -ing form striking
Verb forms
- Base form
- strike
- He/she/it
- strikes
- Past
- struck
- Past participle
- struck
- -ing form
- striking
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
Phrasal verbs and expressions
- strike back To respond to an attack by attacking one's opponent or op...
- strike down To kill (someone or something); to cause to die suddenly.
- strike in To enter suddenly or with force.
- strike off To remove from a list or register.
- strike out To lash out; to strike or hit at someone or something, pa...
- strike through To partly obliterate text by drawing a continuous line th...
- strike up To start something with somebody else, such as a conversa...
From the library
One of the huntsmen, attracted by the rustling of the leaves, looked back, and seeing the Hart, shot an arrow from his bow and struck it.
At last it arrested her--and she beheld a striking resemblance of Mr.
Now, as a quarter-past one has already struck, I do not consider I have asserted too much in saying, that, in another hour and thirty minutes Mercédès will have become Madame Dantès.”
“Shall we not set forth?” asked the sweet, silvery voice of Mercédès; “two o’clock has just struck, and you know we are expected in a quarter of an hour.”
Other matches
- strike A status resulting from a batter swinging and m... A2
- strike back To respond to an attack by attacking one's oppo...
- strike down To kill
- strike in To enter suddenly or with force.
- strike off To remove from a list or register.
- strike out To lash out
- strike through To partly obliterate text by drawing a continuo...
- strike up To start something with somebody else, such as ...
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